Name: Lewinella agarilytica Lee 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.ga.ri.ly’ti.ca. Malayan n. agar, agar, gelling polysaccharides from seaweed; N.L. neut. n. agarum, agar; N.L. adj. lyticus -a -um, dissolving; from Gr. masc. adj. lytikos, dissolving; N.L. fem. adj. agarilytica, agar-dissolving

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 24740; JBRI 2009; JCM 14216; KCTC 12774; SST-19

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AM286229 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lee SD. Lewinella agarilytica sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium of the phylum Bacteroidetes, isolated from beach sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2814-2818.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:531-532.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Neolewinella agarilytica (Lee 2007) Huang et al. 2022	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 2 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2". — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.

Parent taxon: Lewinella Sly et al. 1998

Assigned by: Lee SD. Lewinella agarilytica sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium of the phylum Bacteroidetes, isolated from beach sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2814-2818.

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